Nick Cave : Classic or Dud ?

A friend who moved away maybe 7 years ago left me his record collection to hold on to until he stops living like a vagabond and returns to collect them someday. Tons of vinyl, a bunch of tapes, a couple of VHS tapes, and one dvd.

I set up a new TV and blu ray player recently and wanted to test it out, but all my dvds were upstairs and I remembered he had this one dvd sitting with all his other stuff right near the new TV, which happened to be the Nick Cave "God Is In The House" concert film. I picked it up and it felt much heavier than it should have, and upon opening it I found a stack of naked pictures of his now ex girlfriend.

I don't know why I found this so amusing but something a bunch of naked pics stashed in a Nick Cave dvd seems so appropriately seedy and awesome.

"god" is in the "house"

lol

I got to say the live version of "Higgs Boson Blues" from Live at KCRW to me slays the studio version. The slow and linguine groove of the live radio version is hypnotic, it kind of reminds me of the "Thrill Is Gone" groove. I hear the studio version of "Higgs Boson Blues" and it sounds way too fast.

agree, it's a great live album.

did you see the live studio take in 20000 days? now that's spectacular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zQSuPDmBPc

otm

Holy shit this is awful:
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/13420121.Rock_legend_Nick_Cave_s_son_killed_in_cliff_fall/

Read about the incident this morning before the victim was named, fuck. So many times I've seen Nick out with his boys, skateboarding on the seafront and such. What a dreadful fucking thing

it's terrible, so awful for all of them.

Oh fuck :(

that is heartbreaking.

It was just on the local news. shocking.

The death is being dealt by the coroner's officer and is not being treated as suspicious.

there was a great picture of nick w/ his boys on twitter the other day:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtWdNlYIUAAWDve.jpg

This is horrible. Poor guy.

So awful :(

awful awful awful

my god, that photo.

Rest In Peace.

I am so sad about this, the statement they issued made me cry so hard. can't even imagine the pain.

My coworker recently lost his stepdaughter

I cannot imagine anything more life-shattering

Loved the last scene in 10,000 Days where he's eating pizza with them and watching cartoons.

yeah that was cool

Fleeting impression, but he looked like an A+ dad and a doting one too whenever I saw him out with them. Dunno why I feel quite so cut up about this, but I made damn sure my own kids got an extra big hug from me when I got home today.

hug them for me too :)

11 year old wasn't best pleased the first time round tbh

lol

very sad.

oh man, so sad

Yeah, don't know what to say. But very sad.
Did Cave just finish a tour cos he was on one recently. Just think it might be even worse for him if he was away at the time.
Must be devastating anyway.

Well, thanks to the Daily Mail, who doubtless think it looks too much like Broadchurch not to go in with the intrusive photos (which I've not seen) its fairly clear he's there.

Hoping that grief and media pressure isn't going to lead him back into previous substance abuse.

A parent's worse fear, I just can't imagine what the family is going through, my heart goes out to them.

wtf https://twitter.com/alexispetridis/status/621941755387244544

Cave, who is known as the Prince of Darkness because of his obsession with death and violence...

Jesus, that's some sub-Daily Mail spitefulness there

what the hell

two days running apparently as well

"nick cave had watched violent films with his children" ffs

Yeah, god what I'm hearing seems to indicate that despite earlier depiction as a near psychopath he was a fantastic deeply loving Dad who had a lot of time for his kids.

insinuating cave was in some way responsible, even when the circumstances around the incident are unclear

and what 15 year old hasn't seen a film containing violence?? some of these films might even have been made by a news corp subsidiary

I want him to beat the shit out of whoever wrote that

https://twitter.com/BernLagan

the worst

JCLC otm

well this is terrible

Saw the Distant Sky simulcast screening on Thursday. Clearly the arena shows were all pretty much identical because it was the same set I saw in London. A poorer show tbh, the version of Tupelo in articular wasn't nearly as good and the whole thing seemed a lot more one-note in terms of song tempo. Some observations:

Still don't like that new arrangement of The Ship Song.
Martyn Casey has mutated into Steve Bannon.
Jim S has turned into Mark 'Chappers' Chapman.
The hands-on-hip shaker action Jim did during Red Right Hand was a tad camp.
Loved Thomas Winder's confused face when he was trying to watch for a cue during The Weeping Song when Nick was on walkabout.
Laughed out loud at Thomas' panic during the count-in for Push The Sky Away when he realised his beater was the wrong way round.

Sad news – ex-Bad Seed Conway Savage has passed away of a brain tumour, aged 58. RIP.

oh fuck

RIP :( :( :(

saddest news

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/what-are-your-thoughts-on-brian-enos-stance-on-israel/

Nick Cave shares letter to Brian Eno on Israel concert.